Around the 4-minute mark, Youssef described him to the audience as the American Youssef , and that JS copies everything he does (then tells JS that he said he was awesome). Then said that JS is jealous of him.

As for the traffic lights, we do have them. We just consider them a suggestion!

Around the 4-minute mark, Youssef described him to the audience as the American Youssef , and that JS copies everything he does (then tells JS that he said he was awesome). Then said that JS is jealous of him.

As for the traffic lights, we do have them. We just consider them a suggestion!

I wish you would have recapped BEFORE I watched the whole boring thing. It's a bit better now.

I have been to Cairo and while riding on the major highway we noticed three lanes were painted on the road but there were about five lanes of traffic. Horns honking all the time. We perceived that horns were also used as a greeting not just a warning.

My opinion is JS likes to make the interviews first and foremost entertaining.

Interviewing authors, especially when their book are on a really dry subject, is probably very difficult. He makes a lot of jokes and tried to steer the conversation into something the audience can pallet, while still helping the author pitch their book and let the audience know what it's about.

Most of the time when actors are on the show they're doing a press tour and are there to pitch their current movie. It's not like he's really interviewing the person per se. Some times he'll ask a personal question and they'll get sidetracked and bring up the movie at the end of the interview. It all depends on the actor.

When he interview high level politicians, sometimes he'll just let them ramble on forever. I remember when Bill Clinton was on an Bill got stuck in some tangent and JS let him go on for a few minutes.. But then again if you're even a little rude to an ex president, they might not come back and could hurt your chances of having future high level guests.

I think JS is a good interviewer for his comedy show based on political satire. Remember this isn't a real news show..

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Stewart is a great interviewer when he likes and agrees with the interviewee. Otherwise it becomes John Stewart talking over the interviewee.

I'll give you that-I've seen that happen from time to time. Although I will say it's not ALWAYS that way-as said earlier, his interviews with O'Reilly are very entertaining. There are other examples that are escaping me.

But yeah-when he's both VERY passionate and he disagrees, sometimes it can be like a breaking dam.

Stewart is a great interviewer when he likes and agrees with the interviewee. Otherwise it becomes John Stewart talking over the interviewee.

Both guys are better than Colbert though. Colbert is so into his blowhard persona that he interrupts his guests constantly and doesn't let them finish their thought. Like a couple of nights ago with Peniel Joseph. Colbert was interrupting so much that Joseph had to say "Steven, let me speak for a second" to get a word in.

What's funny is I think he KNOWS they're bad, and that's why he does them. Stewart THINKS he's bad and he's not terrible.

Yes, Oliver knows his impressions are bad, but that's what makes them funny.

Also, for those that haven't been keeping up, they had Jon Stewart Skype in from Egypt either Wed. or Thu (watched them both together, don't remember which episode it was). Despite the delay and the half-duplex issues, it was a pretty funny interview.

And Jon Stewart with a beard is starting to look a lot like Billy Joel.